Re: Two sound cards, only sound out of one

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-alsa@mega-nerd.com>]

Hi Clemens,

Sorry for the delay in responding to this.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:13:37 +0200 (METDST)
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:

> The same happens with "hw:1" instead of "card1"?

Hmm, I think this might be some interesting info:

These two commands work:
    root@sound:~# aplay -vv -D hw:1 a.wav 
    Playing WAVE 'a.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
    Hardware PCM card 1 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0


    root@sound:~# aplay -vv -D card0 a.wav 
    Playing WAVE 'a.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
    Hardware PCM card 1 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0

while these two don't:

    root@sound:~# aplay -vv -D hw:0 a.wav 
    Playing WAVE 'a.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
    Hardware PCM card 0 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0

    root@sound:~# aplay -vv -D card1 a.wav 
    Playing WAVE 'a.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
    Hardware PCM card 0 'Ensoniq AudioPCI' device 0 subdevice 0

So obviously I have my definitions in /etc/asound.conf a little mixed up
but I still have one card working and one not.

> Is the output of "lspci -x" the same for both cards (except port and
> irq settings)?

Slightly different:

    00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
    00: 74 12 80 58 05 00 10 24 02 00 01 04 00 20 00 00
    10: 01 a4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 12 00 20
    30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 0c 80
    
    00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
    00: 74 12 71 13 05 00 10 24 08 00 01 04 00 20 00 00
    10: 01 94 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 12 71 13
    30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 0c 80

> Are the mixer controls really exactly the same (run "alsactl store"
> and look into /etc/asound.state)?

Well I'm actually running two instances of alsamixergui using:

    alsamixergui -c 0 &
    alsamixergui -c 1 &

The devices shown by the two instances are slightly different and the controls
work independantly.

Erik
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